0 present participle of embroil --
1 to cause someone to become involved in an argument or a difficult situation: --
Stieglitz spent most of 1900 finding ways to outmaneuver these efforts, embroiling him in the very administrative battles that he so strongly wanted to avoid.
Surely, it would be better to address the main points at issue through such a code rather than embroiling industry in further statutory provisions of that kind.
It has often been said that it is difficult to frame a law of trespass without embroiling innocent parties.
He may remember my saying to him on one occasion that one day he might be embroiling himself with winter keep.
It could have blasted all the nations of the world out of their narrow parochialism and the petty issues which are embroiling foreign affairs today.
It may be that occasionally they do not mind embroiling us in little bits of trouble, when it suits their book.
We have borne in mind the real risks of embroiling children in disputes and of burdening them with individual decisions.
Finally, parliaments were rarefied arenas, embroiling those elected to them in procedures, spaces, techniques, networks, factions, and contingent issues that necessarily distanced representatives from their representative source.
